Themis, The Flower of Justice
Chapter 32 — Magic Knights(9)
[Curt Mountain, Chronos Imperial Border, three days before Medeia attacked Chronos]
In the mountains east of the Chronos imperial border, there was a steep mountain that became the natural stronghold of the Chronos Empire, it was Curt Mountain.
The mountain is nicknamed the mountain of judgment, because the mountain has swallowed a lot of casualties as a result of ‘judgment’ performed by Chronos. Many wars were fought by Chronos on the mountain when they still did not gain imperial status. High and steep mountains, plus a mist of nature that never disappears from view, these geographical conditions become a powerful natural weapon for Chronos to survive.
In addition to the fortifications, they also used the mountain to detain and punish prisoners and traitors of war. Rumor has it that it is better to die on the battlefield than to be a prisoner in Curt Mountain.
After the war was over and no one attacked Chronos anymore, the Chronos empire used the fortress on this mountain as a center for information exchange. With the thick fog and hard-to-reach heights, it was almost impossible to find Chronos' information center if he had never been there before.
But currently—
“Haah... Haaah... Haah,”
‘Sial... How they can be here’
In the middle of this rugged and thick foggy mountain range, there was a man running breathlessly like he was being chased by something.
His dirty and tattered appearance, as well as his already torn armor and clothes, could be seen that the man was going through a difficult thing.
The man with the tattered appearance continued to run even though he was out of breath. Descending the rugged mountains regardless of the terrain he was passing through, it looked like he was being chased by something that threatened his life.
‘SIAL DAMN SHIT! I have to run! Just a little more to get to the headquarters of the information center!’
The man continued to run at his full speed, he used the power of his aura to increase his running speed. He continued to focus the aura on his feet in order to continue to run quickly in this rugged mountain range.
‘Viewed! That's the headquarters of the information center!’
When he saw a roof that was familiar to him, the man immediately brightened. He further increased the speed of his towards the building. But as he continued to run towards the building waiting for him was not the information center headquarters expected by him, but a group of witches with silver sun robes.
Looking at the witches, the man's gaze stopped running, he looked at them with a look of despair. He knelt down, and laughed while crying.
“Haha... Impossible,”
While lamenting the end of his life, the witches seem to be doing something. A flash of light shone over them, and moments later the flashing light turned into a giant ball of fire.
“”Fire ball!””
Looking at the approaching fireball, the man closed his eyes, he felt this was the end of his life. He held onto his left chest tightly which contained the Chronos imperial symbol.
‘Life... Chronos Empire!.’
*BAAMM!
The giant fireball hit the man and exploded violently to destroy the surrounding environment.
After making a giant fireball, the, the witches wearing robes with sun symbols left the area and faced a middle-aged man with shiny silver hair were sitting while staring at the burning debris of the building.
“Mr Eilan, the last rat has been exterminated. Operation annihilate rat nest has been successful,”
One of the group of magicians looked down while reporting what was going on.
“Hmm,”
But only a brief response came out from the silver-haired man.
“Because our mission has been successful, let's return to headquarters,”
The man got up from his seat and walked past the witches. Casually, he walked through the ruins of a building that was burning by fierce fire.
“”[Freeze]””
With just a single word from him the surrounding air had suddenly become increasingly cold. In an instant, the burning building was frozen inside a block of ice.
“Ah, since this is a mission from big brother, I have to finish it with more festive,”
After saying that, the silver-haired man smiled and continued walking away from the ruins, after walking quite a distance, he turned around. He took out a long stick from the air and pointed towards the ruins of the burning building.
After a while, a bright beam appeared from the end of the wand and it began to form a magic circle that was the size of a palm.
The man started saying something strange from his mouth while continuing to draw increasingly larger magic circles.
“Magic Ultima Argaient.”.
“”[Ultimate Freeze]””
*FLASH!!
After the man finished his spell, rays of light shot out from his level towards the burning buildings. The light beam moves at a very fast speed, and when the beam comes into contact with the buildings that burn—
*DRRKKK!
In an instant, the burning buildings froze. The entire burned area is now inside the ice block. Even the fire that burned the building was not extinguished, but the fire also froze inside the ice block.
Looking at the magic show displayed by the silver-haired man, the robed witches could not close their mouths because they were so shocked.
The magic shown by the silver-haired man earlier was Freeze magic, magic that could be used by level 5 and above magicians with all affinities.
Yet what the silver-haired man had pointed out earlier was something as powerful as a spell that could only be used by above tier 8 mages.
“Haha, how many times you want to see the Argaient family is amazing... Who would have thought that the Argaient family had such an unlimited method of magic spell enhancement?”
The thing the silver-haired man did was indeed very shocking to all the magicians. From the known theory, the magic enhancement was almost impossible and could only be performed in low-level spells like fireballs.
Even if the increase in spell power was possible, then it could only be increased by one to two levels. There was no record where one performed magic reinforcement on top of a level 4 spell and also performed magic enhancement to the extent that the power it unleashed was equivalent to that of a level 9 magic.
After freezing a building that was almost as big as a city along with its flames at once, he did not look tired in the slightest and continued to walk casually as if the great magic earlier was nothing to him.
“Come back,”
“YA! SIR!”
After a short sentence from the silver-haired man, in a moment thousands of people wearing robes with silver sun symbols came out from behind the thick fog in the mountains as if they were hiding and waiting for orders from the man while hiding their whereabouts.
The silver-haired man is Eilan Argaient, the younger sister of Selena Argaient and heir and future head of the Argaient family of grand magic. He and the special forces of the Argaient family are given the role of destroying the Chronos information center which is responsible for connecting the capital with the Chronos army that is outside.
The Chronos information center, which is said to be a fortress of nature that can never be penetrated, was destroyed by Eilen Argaient and his special forces.
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[City of Arland, Medeia]
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The fishy smell of blood as well as the foul smell of burnt human flesh came from the fallen soldiers from both sides filling the city of Arland. The soldiers who pierced and slashed at each other, as well as the soldiers who shot arrows and magic at each other, both sides gave off their best combat power.
After Medea gathered her entire army on the front lines, Chronos did the same. They focused all the troops at one point in the city of Arland, where the Medeans attacked.
The Medean soldiers who tried to climb the fort walls or destroy the fort walls with magic, and the Chronos soldiers who were surviving the onslaught of the Medeian soldiers really became an intense sight.
The unprepared Chronos army became an advantage for the Medeans. The Chronos warrior, who had been exhausted physically and mentally, could not match the Medeia warrior who was in prime physical condition and high morale.
Although it initially looks balanced, but the longer the battle drags on, the Chronos are increasingly desperate. Holding the advantage of being a survivor was not enough for Chronos to win this war.
The soldiers of Chronos outside and above the walls began to fall one by one. Although Chronos' side had suffered losses in terms of soldiers, it was not something that determined the victor of this war. In a world where power is everything, quantity is not important. Wanting as much as possible the warriors and aura knights, they would not be able to survive a single attack of an aura master.
The real battle would start if one of the higher-ups from both sides intervened.
“Gah! Basic sneaky! How dare those fucking Medeias play Chronos?”
A tall, thin man is seen gazing at the entire battlefield from above the wall, he is one of the 7 Chronos swords, Granger Graziette.
“Calm, Granger. Cunning is a habit of the weak. They do cunning because they are weak,”
A large, muscular woman who was beside Granger grinned, She is one of the 7 heroes of Chronos as well, Marsha Benwith.
Hearing the response from Masha, Granger smirked.
“Then, I'll go down directly now and teach that weak bastard a lesson!”
“If you want to join the fight, at least take 7 aura masters and finish off those weak bastards,”
Granger nodded in agreement at Masha's suggestion to bring some masters to plunge her along towards the battlefield.
“Kekekeke, let me teach you what happens if they play Chronos Empire!”
Granger giggled and jumped straight from the wall towards the battleground along with the several aura masters he was carrying.
Seeing Chronos' increasingly desperate party of one of the 7 Chronos heroes, Granger Graziette who had reached the pinnacle of the aura master began to plunge into the battlefield!
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[On the side of Medeia]
Zedd, who used to be in the headquarters as the brain of the battle, now helped in the magic division of the Medea army. He became the head of the attack and defense magic in this war.
Although he dove into the field, the burden as a strategist of the Medeia army still did not escape him. While attacking using magic, he still actively contributed in giving direction to the troops who were fighting. For that, he had to pay attention to the battle conditions from the field and also the reports of the soldiers from a distance.
Even though Zedd was a very intelligent person, it was still an almost impossible thing to do. Performing complex calculations when casting high-level magic, as well as observing and giving direction to the soldiers, all of these things almost make Zedd's brain rupture.
While he was being preoccupied with many things, one troublesome report came to his ear.
“What? Granger Graziette with some masters down to the battlefield? The number is 7 people? Goddamnit! Chronos, why do they have such a powerful fighting force,”
Zedd growled and threw his magic wand on the ground. But as the brain of the Medeia team, Zedd must not be too soluble in his emotions. He quickly reorganized his emotions and was ready to give directions.
“Ordered for all remaining commanders to plunge into the field. Make sure to finish off as many soldiers as possible when you are dealing with the Chronos masters. For Granger, I can only hand it to you, Sir Ravin Dyema,”
In the distance, Ravin who was standing with the Silver Wolf unit received a message that he had to face Granger. Ravin didn't have much of a response, he just smiled and replied—
“By pleasure. Marishka, I'm handing Silver Wolf's command to you. Oh yeah, don't forget to keep an eye on Mathilda so she doesn't cause trouble,”
The short blue-haired lady with the big magician hat nodded.
“Sure, I won't let the slightest mess arise,”
“Then I can entrust this to you,”
After saying this, Ravin quickly darted towards where Granger was. As ordered to the Commanders, Ravin also finished off as many enemies as possible before fighting the Granger.
Ravin quickly slashed and finished off his enemies like a lawn mower, not taking long, he was in front of Granger who seemed to be having fun with his killer sword.
Granger Graziette, is the most famous person on the battlefield compared to the other 7 Chronos swords. It was because of the cruelty committed by him. When fighting, he even sometimes lost his mind and slaughtered his own enemies and allies, even he often destroyed surrounding villages that were not involved with anything.
He used two giant swords that looked like shark teeth. Granger who slaughtered hundreds of people with the sword like a butcher, he earned the nickname Granger The Slaughter.
Seeing the famous Granger for his abomination, Ravin's emotions intensified. He who is usually a flat and calm person, but this time he felt a very strong feeling of hate. Ravin walked over to Granger.
“Hei grasshopper, are you having fun by slaughtering the weak warriors?”
Ravin grinned and provoked the Granger.
“Hah! Isn't this a battlefield? I can do whatever I want!”
Granger turned around and saw who said that nonsense to him.
“Oh yes? Is that not the habit of the weak? Weak people are people who like to hurt people who are weaker than him, right?”
“Sialan..”.
Granger's voice trembled with anger and her forehead frowned, hearing the provocation from Ravin.
“ALSO YOU!!!”
Without waiting any longer, full of emotion, Granger darted swiftly towards Ravin. He took out two giant mikikikiknya cutting swords that looked like praying mantis weapons by Ravin.
Looking at the Granger who had already lost his temper, Ravin snorted.
“Hmph! It's a grasshopper. Is your patience just that?”
Looking at the Granger who did not respond to him and continued advancing towards him, Ravin took out one long sword of his.
“It will be a fun fight,”
Ravin grinned at the thought of how much fun it could be to finish off the person he hated the most.
Apparently, one of the main stages in this war, Ravin Dynasty the deputy commander of the silver wolf army against Granger Graziette, the sword cutter of the 7 Chronos imperial swords!
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